SedDNA Meeting

Europe/Berlin
Plenary Hall Building H and Building A45 (Alfred Wegener Institute Potsdam)

Plenary Hall Building H and Building A45

Alfred Wegener Institute Potsdam

Telegrafenberg Building H 14773 Potsdam Germany
Description

Welcome! 

Welcome to the first SedDNA Meeting which will take place in Potsdam (Germany) from the 06th to the 09th of June 2023.

financially supported by

PAGES Past Global Changes, the ERC ConsG Grant GlacialLegacy and INQUA

Schedule

Please check the schedule before registering as there are sometimes two workshopes at the same time.

The tentative schedule can be found on this webpage on the left side unter 'timetable'; detailed description of the schedule will be inserted in programme. This is a living document and will be updated regularly. 

Presentations & Contributions

Each participant is required to bring a Poster (max. A0 portrait format) or printed out figures and present them during the Ice Breaker Poster Session. You will present your poster in a lightening poster presentation (1 min) on Tuesday. 

 

No conference fees apply.

 

We are currently still working out the details for the excursion (exploring Potsdam a little) and dinner and will update you as soon as possible on this webpage. Costs will apply.

    • 12:00 13:00
      Registration Entrance Hall (Building H)

      Entrance Hall

      Building H

    • 13:00 14:40
      Symposium Lecture Hall (Building H)

      Lecture Hall

      Building H

      • 13:00
        Welcome & outline of the day 20m
        Speakers: Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring, Ulrike Herzschuh
      • 13:20
        Going north: postglacial arrival of animals to N Fennoscandia in relation to vegetation changes 20m
        Speaker: Inger Alsos (The Arctic University, Norway)
      • 13:40
        Paleogenetic perspectives on life and climate history in Southeast Alaska 20m
        Speaker: Charlotte Lindqvist (University at Buffalo, USA)
      • 14:00
        Vegetation dynamics from sedimentary ancient DNA 20m
        Speaker: Ulrike Herzschuh (Alfred Wegener Instiute Potsdam, Germany)
      • 14:20
        Benchmarking Variables Affecting Taxa Classification of Ancient Metagenomics Data 20m
        Speaker: Yucheng Wang (University of Cambridge, UK)
    • 14:40 15:10
      Poster lightening
    • 15:10 15:40
      Coffee Break 30m Building H

      Building H

    • 15:40 16:20
      Poster lightening
    • 16:20 18:00
      Symposium Lecture Hall (Building H)

      Lecture Hall

      Building H

      • 16:20
        Recovering ancient DNA from the seafloor to reconstruct Antarctic ecosystems 20m
        Speaker: Linda Armbrecht (University of Tasmania, Australia)
      • 16:40
        Microbial functional genes recovered with metagenomics from sedimentary archives 20m
        Speaker: Eric Capo (Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Spain)
      • 17:00
        Assessing the response of microeukaryote communities to anthropogenic changes in temperate lakes through the sedDNA approach 20m
        Speaker: Cecilia Barouillet (INRAE, France)
      • 17:20
        SedaDNA in Polar Paleoceanography 20m
        Speaker: Stijn de Schepper (Norce, Norway)
      • 17:40
        Sedimentary ancient DNA reveals plankton community shifts in subarctic western Bering Sea back to the Eemian interglacial 20m
        Speaker: Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring (Alfred Wegener Institute Potsdam, Germany)
    • 18:00 20:00
      Poster Session and Ice Breaker 2h Plenary Hall Building H and Building A45

      Plenary Hall Building H and Building A45

      Alfred Wegener Institute Potsdam

      Telegrafenberg Building H 14773 Potsdam Germany
    • 08:55 09:00
      Welcome & outline of the day 5m Lecture Hall (Building H)

      Lecture Hall

      Building H

      Speaker: Ulrike Herzschuh, Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring (Alfred Wegener Instiute Potsdam, Germany)
    • 09:00 10:20
      Symposium Lecture Hall (Building H)

      Lecture Hall

      Building H

      • 09:00
        Ancient DNA damage accumulation in time-series data 20m
        Speaker: Mikkel Pedersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
      • 09:20
        From where, from when and how? Assessing the provenance and spatiotemporal fidelity of sedimentary DNA 20m
        Speaker: Laura Epp (University of Konstanz)
      • 09:40
        Hunting for the causes and consequences of mammoth extinction on Wrangel Island 20m
        Speaker: Pete Heintzman (Stockholm University, Sweden)
      • 10:00
        Can de-extinction become real? 20m
        Speaker: Michael Hofreiter (University of Potsdam)
    • 10:20 11:00
      Coffee Break & Posters 40m Entrance and poster hall (Building H)

      Entrance and poster hall

      Building H

    • 11:00 12:40
      Symposium Lecture Hall (Building H)

      Lecture Hall

      Building H

      • 11:00
        Bioinformatic Resources for Ancient Metagenomics 20m
        Speaker: James Fellows Yates (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany)
      • 11:20
        Population genetics from sediments: challenges and perspectives 20m
        Speaker: Benjamin Vernot (Max Planck Research Group for MPI Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany)
      • 11:40
        Ecological insights derived from contemporary spatio-temporal eDNA analyses 20m
        Speaker: Simon Creer (Bangor University, UK)
      • 12:00
        Some thoughts for using 
plant sedDNA to reconstruct climate
 by adapting the pollen-based method CREST 20m
        Speaker: Manuel Chevalier (University of Bonn, Germany)
      • 12:20
        Detecting critical transitions with paleo-records: a multivariate approach 20m
        Speaker: Zofia Taranu (Université de Montréal, Canada)
    • 12:40 13:40
      Light lunch & Posters 1h Building H

      Building H

    • 13:40 14:20
      SedDNA Community Meeting 40m Plenary Hall Building H and Building A45

      Plenary Hall Building H and Building A45

      Alfred Wegener Institute Potsdam

      Telegrafenberg Building H 14773 Potsdam Germany
      Speaker: Eric Capo
    • 14:20 18:30
      Excursion: Registration necessary
    • 18:30 21:30
      Joint dinner: Own tab, registration necessary
    • 08:55 09:00
      Welcome & outline of the day 5m Building H

      Building H

    • 09:00 10:00
      Labtours 1h Plenary Hall Building H and Building A45

      Plenary Hall Building H and Building A45

      Alfred Wegener Institute Potsdam

      Telegrafenberg Building H 14773 Potsdam Germany
    • 10:00 10:30
      Coffee Break 30m Plenary Hall Building H and Building A45

      Plenary Hall Building H and Building A45

      Alfred Wegener Institute Potsdam

      Telegrafenberg Building H 14773 Potsdam Germany
    • 10:30 12:00
      Method Discussion 1h 30m Plenary Hall Building H and Building A45

      Plenary Hall Building H and Building A45

      Alfred Wegener Institute Potsdam

      Telegrafenberg Building H 14773 Potsdam Germany

      We will have nine break out groups. Please find your breakout group on the information board next to the registration desk.
      Break out room Moderator Room
      1 Katharina Dulias A45 S 001 lecture hall
      2 Weihan Jia A45 S 208 Office Ulrike
      3 Kevin Nota A45 S 002 Library
      4 Josefine Weiss A5 Meeting Room
      5 Tuluğ Ataman A45 S 003 right
      6 Sam Hudson Lecture Hall Haus H
      7 Emilie Saulnier-Talbot A45 S 003 left
      8 Jordan Von Eggers Foyer Haus H
      9 Barbara Moguel A43 Conference Room

    • 12:00 13:00
      Light Lunch 1h Building H

      Building H

    • 13:00 15:00
      Ancient DNA and network analyses - joint project initiative 2h Lecture Hall (A45S)

      Lecture Hall

      A45S

      This will be a brainstorming workshop where we can share our ideas about potential future collaborative projects on this and other topics. 
      Please bring slides on: (maximum 3 slides)

      1.Examples of species interactions inferred from sedaDNA
      2.Examples of network analysis using environmental/ancient genomic data
      3.Funding opportunities for collaborative projects
      4.Further joint project ideas in other sedaDNA topics

      During the workshop we will work on this document, you can already check and add ideas now. If you want to share slides, you can add them there or bring on your stick.

      https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18bjtpFVX7WvEO5DzhV8c9IfQkPctW-G2HZBPTBLhoV0/edit#slide=id.g2506be43762_0_4

      Speaker: Ulrike Herzschuh
    • 13:00 15:00
      Hands-on Workshop metabarcoding 2h Lecture Hall (Builing H)

      Lecture Hall

      Builing H

      Implementation of a DNA metabarcoding pipeline using obitools4

      OBITools have been around for over 15 years. OBITools4 is their latest version, with a considerable improvement in terms of computational efficiency and ease of installation. During this tutorial, based on the analysis of a toy dataset, we will review the principles behind OBITools, the main algorithms they implement, their advantages and disadvantages.

      This workshop is recommended for students and early PhDs.

      Speaker: Eric Coissac
    • 15:00 15:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 15:30 18:00
      Hands-on workshop metagenomics 2h 30m Lecture Hall (A45S)

      Lecture Hall

      A45S

      The hands-on workshop will be about the data analyses pipelines of metagenomic shotgun data.

      This workshop is recommended for students and early PhDs.

      Speaker: Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring
    • 15:30 18:00
      Modelling workshop on detecting aquatic transitions in sedDNA records (PAGES PaleoECOGEN)) 2h 30m Seminar Room (A45S - 3.floor)

      Seminar Room

      A45S - 3.floor

      The PaleoECOGEN workshop will be split into parts:
      - The first part (Thursday) will be an R workshop, open an to all people, on methods used to detect critical transitions. In particular, the workshop will present Online Dynamic Linear Models (Online DML) for uni- and multivariate datasets.
      - The second part (Friday), again open to all, will be a bring your own data session followed by a group discussion to brainstorm on potential future collaborative projects. Participants will thus be able to apply the R code from part one of the workshop to their own data (2 hours), and then regroup to discuss commonalities about questions and datasets (1 hr), ending off with a brief discussion of research questions that could be applied to our combined datasets in the future (1 hr).

      Link for workshop content - please download everything and save on your computer:
      xxx

      Speaker: Zofia Taranu
    • 09:00 13:00
      Modelling workshop on detecting aquatic transitions in sedDNA records (PAGES PaleoECOGEN)) 4h

      The PaleoECOGEN workshop will be split into parts:
      - The first part (Thursday) will be an R workshop, open an to all people, on methods used to detect critical transitions. In particular, the workshop will present Online Dynamic Linear Models (Online DML) for uni- and multivariate datasets.
      - The second part (Friday), again open to all, will be a bring your own data session followed by a group discussion to brainstorm on potential future collaborative projects. Participants will thus be able to apply the R code from part one of the workshop to their own data (2 hours), and then regroup to discuss commonalities about questions and datasets (1 hr), ending off with a brief discussion of research questions that could be applied to our combined datasets in the future (1 hr).

      Speaker: Zofia Taranu